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http://www.anncol.org/side/537
   
Venezuela's president Hugo Ch�vez denounced the capture of a group of
paramilitaries near Caracas as evidence of an invasion of Venezuela,
inspired, planned and led by an international network. 
  
14.05.2004 (By Jhony Valetta, ANNCOL) "Miami and Colombia are two
points of an axis, probably there are other countries, but these are
the epicenters where the invasion of Venezuela has been planned,
trained and prepare", denounced Ch�vez at an extraordinary meeting of
the National Defense Council this Wednesday in the Miraflores Palace.

This Sunday almost 100 paramilitaries of Colombian nationality were
captured at a country estate near Caracas (see photo).

At the start of his speech President Ch�vez declared: "yet again the
criminal hand of a group of evildoers do violence to the very heart of
the fatherland, an act which should cause lament, even tears, among
all men and women of this fatherland".

"We are facing an event of extreme gravity that seriously threatens
the peace of the Republic", he said.

Ch�vez revealed that he has instructed the intelligence services to
give special attention to internal aspects of the case, because "we
would never believe the thesis that this was nothing but a radical
loony who brought the paramilitaries and stationed them here, and then
left for Miami".

It is the first time in five years that the National Defense Council
has been convened. It will formulate proposals for the consideration
of the government "to take decisions of international, internal,
juridical,
popular, economic, social and military nature", according to the
President.

Participating at the meeting of The National Defense Council was the
Head of State as chairman, and other members of the cabinet, the
president of Supreme Tribunal of Justice and the president of the
Moral Council of the Republic. The commanding officers of the Military
High Command were also present at the meeting.

Before the meeting Mariangela Holgu�n, the Colombian ambassador to
Venezuela, in a declaration to the press denied "emphatically that
Colombia is involved in any sort of destabilization of Venezuela".
 


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